The Virtue of Subtlety: A U.S. Strategy Against the Islamic State

STRATFOR    "U.S. President Barack Obama said recently that he had no strategy as yet toward the Islamic State but that he would present a plan on Wednesday. It is important for a president to know when he has no strategy. It is not necessarily wise to announce it, as friends will be frightened and enemies delighted. A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.

"This is particularly true because, in a certain sense, Obama has a strategy, though it is not necessarily one he likes. Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen. Given the situation, the United States has an unavoidable strategy. There are options and uncertainties for employing it. Let us consider some of the things that Obama does know."   Read More..

By George Friedman

A photograph that will haunt you

Know the enemy we must fight.

Republican Security Council

The DOJ plans to issue a warrant for this man's arrest and a lawyer

will be appointed for him.

"This photo shows an Islamic State (IS) militant with a terrified 7 year old girl in Syria. IS refers to her as a kafir, which has no human value to them. They can be exploited for skills, sex, slavery, or anything else. "

17-year-old says she is one of about 40 Yazidi women and girls, some as young as 12, still being held captive and sexually abused on a daily basis by Isil fighters

Would you feel safe?…

Liberal Logic 101

 

Al Sharpton and Eric Holder, we need your help!

Gang of Black Teens Beats White Memphis Grocery Store Employee into Unconsciousness    ... "Video taken by customers on the scene attest to the viciousness of the attack. It shows screaming, joking, laughing black members of the mob attacking and kicking a white Kroger employee lying immobile on the ground.

"Memphis Police Department Director Toney Armstrong released a statement on Sunday morning, making no mention of a possible hate crime." ...
 

'They got a white dude!"
 

Black School Girl Beat Up for Acting 'Too Much Like a White Person'  ... "This kind of racial hatred has to be learned from somewhere or someone. Movies like Django Unchained only help to promote racial hatred. Rappers shout out words of hate not much different than those of Sharpton, Robertson and other radicals. Obama and Holder lead by example, but the bottom line is that I believe much of it is learned at home from an early age."

It's 3 am and Commander-in-Chief Obama's phone is ringing

Obama to give address on Islamic State at 9 p.m. Wednesday from White House

A President Whose Assurances Have Come Back to Haunt Him    "When President Obama addresses the nation on Wednesday to explain his plan to defeat Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria, it is a fair bet he will not call them the “JV team.”

 

"Nor does he seem likely to describe Iraq as “sovereign, stable and self-reliant” with a “representative government.” And presumably he will not assert after more than a decade of conflict that “the tide of war is receding.”... Video.

Show Them No Mercy, for You Shall Receive None   "At the climax of the first battle for Middle Earth, between the World of Men and the evil Sauron’s army, clear direction is laid out for dithering American leadership when confronting murderous savages in a hard, dark world.  Aragorn, de facto leader of the Men, surveys the 10,000 Orcs roaring outside for war, champing at the bit with yellow fangs, eager to slaughter the world of Men.

"Aragorn shouts his final command to his fighters as both battle cry and warning: Show them no mercy, for you shall receive none. 

 

 

... "That is why Obama’s head-scratching over how to proceed with ISIS is mystifying.  These are the bad guys.  There are no shades of gray, nor colorable issues to mull over in late-night gab sessions with Valerie Jarrett.  This one is easy." ...
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"ISIS is well-funded, deeply committed, and deadly serious.  They may not be here yet, but they will come.  Analysis has its place when lines are blurry.  Here, there is only the bright red line of civilization on one side, and knuckle-dragging, pitiless barbarians on the other.

"Use every tool we have and wipe them out.  Without mercy."

His fecklessness about the Islamic State was too much even for his supporters.

" The media did its job this time. It told Obama loud and clear that his response wasn’t good enough. It was a welcome break from the way it has shielded the president from reality in one disaster after another these last six years.
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"Let Americans take note of the Red Line of the President of the United States: It is not drawn to delimit the Islamic State, it is drawn to restrain the U.S. military. It is not something to give heart to America’s friends around the world. Or to instill fear in its enemies."   Emphasis added, TD

From Lucianne:

Goldberg: Obama Will Do 'Just Enough to Make ISIS Headlines Go Away'

Ron Fournier: Is Obama Leading or Being Led?   "Consider this paradox: Americans overwhelmingly support President Obama's actions against the Islamic State so far—airstrikes and humanitarian assistance without ground troops—and yet they disapprove of Obama's handling of the ISIS crisis. Why the split mind?"   More on this: Poll: Public supports strikes in Iraq, Syria; Obama’s ratings hover near his all-time lows

About those "moderate" Syrian rebels we want to help... (Updated)

Expert who traveled with Syrian rebels: So-called ‘moderates’ are Muslim Brotherhood-style Islamists   ... “Undoubtedly outside of Syria, and in the Syrian opposition structures, there are civilian political activists and leaders who are opposed to al-Qaida and opposed to Islamism,” Spyer explained to TheDC in an email interview. “There are also civilian activists and structures within the country which are opposed to al-Qaida and Islamism. But when one looks at the armed rebel groups, one finds an obvious vast majority there who are adherents of Islamism of one kind or another — stretching from Muslim Brotherhood-type formations all the way across to groups openly aligned with al-Qaida central and with al-Zawahiri.”... 
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"So even those forces nominally aligned with western supported bodies are themselves overwhelmingly Islamist in outlook (there may be a very small and marginal number of forces who are ostensibly secular, but these are of no military significance). It’s my contention that the real power in the rebellion lies not in the external structures, but among the commanders of the major fighting groups. These men are Islamists.' ”... Read more:

 

UPDATED: Syria’s ‘So-Called Moderate Rebels’ Sold Sotloff To ISIS   See update:
White House says beheaded U.S. journalist not 'sold' to Islamic State
"The United States has no information indicating beheaded American journalist Steven Sotloff was "sold" to Islamic State militants by moderate Syrian opposition rebels, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.

"Sotloff family spokesman Barak Barfi told CNN on Monday night the family believed Islamic State paid up to $50,000 to rebels who told the militant group the 31-year-old journalist had entered Syria."

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This President And His Party Trade America's Sovereignty And Possibly Lives For Votes

And it will always be the fault of others.

Jeffrey T. Brown   "If we should be attacked by terrorists who come across our unprotected, undefended southern border, and should Americans die in any such attack, we would do well to understand for what those lives were lost. They would have been spent for the ability of illegal aliens to cast illegal votes for politicians doing illegal things. While both parties are to some degree to blame for the porousness of our southern border, the party that has the singular ability to solve the problem via the levers of government, the Democrats, is ensuring that the problem becomes so pervasive and vast that it will be virtually unsolvable by generations of future elected representatives." ... 
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Our president has surrendered our security, our sovereignty, and our peace, all for the fraudulent votes of people who will protect him and his kind for generations to come.
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Obama on Immigration: Deja Vu on Didn't Do   ... "What Obama couldn't quite say is that if he further undermines immigration law, the Democrats will lose the Senate. And he couldn't exactly blame Republicans for his decision to not act as promised. Ergo, gobbledygook." ...